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Literature Please come visit. People get upset, write poetry about it, and post it here. Sometimes we also talk about books. |
03-05-2011, 09:34 PM
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#101
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 2,424
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Blood on the Walls. Checkz it out!
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05-15-2011, 04:39 AM
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#102
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 708
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I started a play a while ago about a group of people stranded at the train station waiting for a train that never comes, until gradually the frustration of the situation causes everything to fall apart & descend into anarchic violence. The whole Con-Dem situation, budget cuts, and the plight of individuals at the mercy of gov & corp interests, are supposed to be major themes.
I have my six characters and a couple of isolated ideas for dialogue exchanges, and a very loose storyline. I'm thinking about adding a sci-fi element to the way everything fucks up at the end, but the angle I'm considering on that could either end up being really cool, or really lame. I'm trying to work out which is the more likely outcome right now.
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02-05-2012, 08:23 PM
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#103
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 176
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I'm working on and off on a long short story called Sympathy From The Devil; its about an African-American Satanist who wins the lottery and decides to party with the homeless.
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02-10-2012, 03:57 AM
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#104
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: UK
Posts: 11
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Currently working on a novella called Black Dominion, I have put the prologue up on Scribd if anyone would like to take a look http://www.scribd.com/doc/79679494/B...Sample-Chapter
I have wanted to write this for many years but I never felt it was the right time to sit and start it.
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03-06-2012, 05:13 PM
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#105
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
Posts: 2,594
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1. A book about a girl who enters a reality tv show who enters because she wants to test herself, then finds out the show is not what she thought it was. While the show has been carefully scripted, she does the unexpected and causes chaos.
- oh crap, now I'm goign to have to research reality tv shows, I've sunk to a whole new low...
2. A girl who grows up with seven brothers, who gets herself into a whole heap of trouble. And she can't die, so her brothers put her up to a bunch of crazy-ass shit to test her limits.
3. A girl who is abducted from Earth and turns into a bounty hunter on an alien world, which is being taken over by vines which live off people.
4. A 18th century girl who looks into a mirror and is frozen in time on board a ship. She becomes a tourist attractson on the boat, and is moved from boat to boat over the years. The family who owns the boat busienss becomes rich then they lose everything when she becomes old news. She ends up left in an attic, where a young boy falls in love with her. He grows up and she wakes up every so many years and it's a slow burning love story. Statue girl is worth a mint.
And about a dozen other things - editing the second and third books in a series - which are almost total re-writes (again).
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03-09-2012, 08:21 AM
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#106
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Posts: 148
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I just write random shit, like this:
Why do I have such horrible visions of death, of cutting out the throat of my enemies so their screams die in a gurgle of blood? How is it I, with such hope for the future, who demands the world become a better place, should also enjoy the scourge of violent fantasies that crosses my mind?
Scenes of protest encourage my discontent, and my thoughts race to resistance from the establishment, from the authority figures who might quell a demonstration of which I am a part.
I imagine being wounded, then retaliating with the feral instinct of an animal. It is a fantasy, not an imagining. The vision pleases me, because I have a need for it.
In my little fantasy, I grab the weapons of the approved killers and turn to kill them, but I do it slowly. I savor their suffering as I imagine a beautiful wound opening with all deliberate pain and suffering.
Mercy can never be granted. This imagining has no means other than suffering. I want the authority to suffer for its foibles and failings. The impunity with which authority operates is wrong. And I want it to pay the price for all the hurting and suffering and sorrow caused me or imagined by me or for any other unlicked wound I may truly know or wish to concoct. In this condition, fidelity loses traction.
I feel my violence, and I enjoy it. It arouses me. I see myself drawing a blade across the spine of an enemy and cutting out the vertebrae of my victim. I watch the body squirm as each electrical impulse in their musculature is left to feed back upon itself, for it can not convey even pain to the brains of my sorry consorts of blood lust. I pull the spine slowly from their backs, and I bring my face close to theirs, if only to hear and feel their last breaths, panting and urgent and terrified!
I want to see the pleading in their eyes, and I want them to see the cold indifference in my sight as I draw their last hope for life and destroy it!
What the fuck is wrong with me?
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03-13-2012, 02:59 AM
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#107
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 176
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04-19-2012, 06:35 AM
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#108
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 232
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at the moment i have been amusing myself by writing natural history for mythological creatures. working out evolutionary paths and anatomical structure and working them into a functional ecology... great fun!
and feels like phant
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04-19-2012, 11:30 AM
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#109
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cali
Posts: 8,030
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That sounds pretty cool. Are you focusing on the myths of a particular culture or stuff from all over?
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04-19-2012, 01:37 PM
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#110
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Writing a blog post on the Hellenization of Wonder Woman, will finish when I'm done exams.
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04-19-2012, 01:48 PM
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#111
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 232
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Solumina
That sounds pretty cool. Are you focusing on the myths of a particular culture or stuff from all over?
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thanks! no particular culture just my favorites really. no plans to publish just a labor of love. i also break it up with designing a (pseudo) scientific background to forms of magic...
basically i am spending time building a fantasy world from the ground up. no story or anything, just a sort of natural history.
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05-01-2012, 05:29 AM
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#112
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 708
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Yo Saya, what's your blog link? I didn't know you had one.
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06-01-2012, 06:34 PM
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#113
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Posts: 17
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Latest Predatory Ethics
As the title says, I'm writing the latest part of Predatory Ethics.
It started as a exploration of how the Antichrist is misunderstood in book 1, Mad Gods, and is currently only on book 2, Commitment.
I explored a more contemporary incarnation with I Am Eternal: Cowboys and Vampires and am writing its sequel I Am Eternal: Vampire and Indians.
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06-14-2012, 06:25 PM
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#114
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 176
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I've decided that the only way to write more is to go all out, and that with the way my mind works it might make me less stressed out.
So as for Fiction I'm currently working on four different projects: Sympathy For The Devil (posted about above), Block World (comedic, first-person novel), and The Stalker Reads My Mind (4); which is the fourth story in my horror-action serialization, since I last posted here I completed the third. This fourth story will be about The Rake.
For the fourth project, I'm permanently releasing the draft of Chapter 1 for The Dark Children and Their Castedral, which is a Gothic/Steampunk Epic I started thinking up in 2007 with the idea of a Gothic Boxcar Children.
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06-24-2012, 11:42 AM
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#115
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Working on a new Gnet fanfiction as we speak.
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Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak.
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09-13-2012, 01:45 AM
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#116
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 8
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Different one
i think, the new generation always like trends. so i suppose to write a trend setter love story. i think it will be new for them who want to love.
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11-21-2012, 12:52 AM
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#117
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 176
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Class-Punk
I'm working on and off on a long short story called Sympathy From The Devil; its about an African-American Satanist who wins the lottery and decides to party with the homeless.
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Still slowly making progress on this, keeping most of its secrets to myself.
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I couldn't wait any longer to start it, so I wrote Chapter 1 of my Science-Fiction novel inspired by stuff like Final Fantasy 7, Bladerunner, Mass Effect, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. I want there to be action, but I also want this to reflect ethical struggles in a dystopian society. Here is the synopsis and the link to Chapter 1:
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12-05-2012, 11:57 PM
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#118
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 176
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Class-Punk
I'm working on and off on a long short story called Sympathy From The Devil; its about an African-American Satanist who wins the lottery and decides to party with the homeless.
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I got wired and finished this crazy story, like the disclaimer on my blog says, it is probably NSFW.
Sympathy From The Devil
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12-10-2012, 05:03 PM
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#119
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: North Cackalacky
Posts: 2,044
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I'm trying very, very hard to motivate myself to write this term paper for my international relations class. The topic is interesting enough, but I haven't had to write a paper in about a year and I'm just so rusty and don't want to do anythang.
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01-20-2013, 08:51 AM
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#120
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Xiamen, Fujian, China
Posts: 2
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Black Sun
I sent the manuscript for Black Sun, book #2 in The Age of Apollyon Trilogy, to the publisher yesterday. Should be released next month.
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01-29-2013, 12:32 PM
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#121
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Everywhere
Posts: 650
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Lulu tweeted that they like my book.
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05-10-2013, 10:23 PM
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#122
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 176
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I'm working on an essay called "Falling In Love Isn't Real" which was inspired by this psychology article. Here's my present first paragraph:
"Its harder for anyone to have peaceful romantic relationships, or find gender equality, when they are sitting on what may be the world's biggest myth. Where the dispelling of this myth could come as a cultural shock for any human being, and certainly did for me. This myth is falling in love as the title suggests. Ultimately the dispelling of this myth will not be an attack on monogamy, and I am writing about it because this awareness will create healthier romantic relationships, and healthier upbringings for kids."
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05-29-2013, 08:34 AM
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#123
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Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 9
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My diary - started writing again a couple of weeks ago
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12-15-2013, 07:52 AM
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#124
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 15
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Damn, should have been here in November. I was writing "The Daughter of Storms" at the time; it's now on the shelf, I have other manuscripts that are closer to publication and will need editing/rewrites sooner. I had a lot of fun writing TDoS, though, whenever I wasn't pushing through the rougher parts of my lack-of-a-plan.
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01-12-2014, 10:41 PM
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#125
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Scandinavian living in the Orient
Posts: 35
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I should start writing poetry again...
So far, I'm (only) writing in my diary.
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